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Rear
Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
(born Grace Brewster Murray)
December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992
wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
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(click here for more pictures)Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
(born Grace Brewster Murray)
December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992
wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Grace Hopper was one of the pioneers in the development of the electronic
computer
Bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1928 from Vassar
Ph.D. at Yale in 1934
In 1943 she joined the US Navy and was assigned to work with Howard Aiken on the Mark I Calculator
In 1949 Hopper became an employee of the Eckert-Mauchley Computer Corporation
(later ==> Remington Rand) and joined the team developing the UNIVAC I,
where she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language
"Grace Hopper and associates, while working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term 'bug' cannot be attributed to Admiral Hopper, this did bring the term computer 'bug' into popularity"
Grace Hopper is famous for her nanoseconds
The annual Grace Murray
Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professionals
was established in 1971 by the Association for Computing Machinery in her
honor.
Hopper was named the first computer science Man of the Year by the Data Processing
Management Association in 1969. In 1970 she received the Harry
M Goode Memorial Award, a medal and $2,000 awarded by the Computer Society
-- "For her pioneering work and leadership in the development of computer
software, and for her impact and influence on the computing profession and
her fellow colleagues, and for her pioneering work and leadership in the development
of important concepts for mathematical and business compilers, and for her
contributions to the development and acceptance of English-language, problem-oriented
programming, and for her outstanding work and continued efforts in the education
and training of men and women for careers in computer science and data processing."
In 1991 President George Bush awarded Hopper the National Medal of Technology. She was the first woman to receive America's highest technology award as an individual. The award recognises her as a computer pioneer, who spent a half century helping keep America on the leading edge of high technology.
